A dazzling and eye-opening memoir that captures one of the most charismatic figures of stage and screen--Yul Brynner--by Yul's only son. 32 pages of black-and-white photos.

Yul: The Man Who Would Be King

Biographies & Memoirs

BRYNNER, ROCK

Arts & Literature

Publisher

Yul Brynner's only son offers a memoir of life with his famous father, his exotic early life, his triumphs on Broadway and in film, his stormy personal life, the troubled relationship with his son, and painful death from cancer

BERKLEY

The wild and melancholy wit of The Ginger Man twenty-five years ago setthe stage for Rock Brynner's hilarious, self-destructive odyssey through mind games, metaphysics and music of his own generation. The son of Yul Brynner, Rock chronicles his ribald search for self-esteem in theshadow of his father's stardom. Like Brooke Hayward, he is a study inyouthful anxiety; but the hero of Rock Brynner's novel has a Rabelaisian madness all his own.Th pursuit of literature and philosophyleads him from Yale to Trinity College, Dublin, where he lives ahaphazard existence of total intoxication - "Rock lived between habitand accident, between a bottle and a banana peel." In Paris he supportshimself, barely, writing the highly charged erotic fantasy included inThe Ballad. Aided by his father's celebrity, and loathing himself forusing it, Rock becomes the world-acclaimed star of Opium, a one-man show on Broadway; then, joining the anthems of the sixties, he istransformed into Red-hat, the vagabond clown who walks halfway aroundthe world with the youthful dropouts along the subterranean trails. From ashrams in India to gypsy festivals in Europe, Rock hides himself in aminstrel's anonymity, and becomes a balladeer, a bottle-cutter, and even a body guard to Muhammad Ali. When his personal is strippedaway by an executive nymph, he determines to kill himself on an epictranscontinental binge to end all binges. But half a million dollarslater, he is still alive, reduced to a bum on the curb with acharge-card machine, "the only beggar in London who accepted AmericanExpress." When his grief has burned away his madness, and thecamaraderie of of rebellion has collapsed like the Beatles, the wanderer chooses the path of courageous confrontation with sanity andredemption. The Ballad of Habit and Accident is a novel about an era of harmony and chaos, and a farcical, enigmatic figure who lays his life on the line to experience it all - and survives. It is a fabulousfestival of outrageous characters, stars and street folk alike.

The ballad of habit and accident: A novel

Wyndham Books

Here is a dazzling biographical memoir of one of the most charismatic figures of stage and screen--Yul Brynner--by Yul's only son. Yul Brynner was Hollywood's ultimate enigma, easily the entertainment industry's most exotic male star. He built a career on the lie that he was born of a gypsy woman and cut his teeth in the wilds of the Siberian taiga. The truth was even more remarkable than that. Here at last, is the man behind the legend--the half-Swiss, half-Tatar boy who grew up in China and Paris, smoked opium with Jean Cocteau, caroused with gypsies, worked as a trapeze artist, emigrated to America, married a starlet, and embarked on one of the most dynamic double careers Broadway and Hollywood would ever know. Yul Brynner electrified audiences with his portrayal of the tragic and despotic King ofSiam, a role he performed more than 4,000 times over a period of thirty years.It was a role that eventually became indistinguishable from the man, for YulBrynner was as much in love with power--and as much a victim of its illusions--as the king he played so brilliantly on stage. He was also every bit as mesmerizing and just as flawed. Yul's fame and riches transformed him. The year 1957 marked his Academy Award triumph as best actor in The King and I. It also marked the start of a torrential megalomania. Yul began to go through friends, wives, lovers, deals and associates with the rapacity of a Mongol chieftain. Yul is the moving tale of a man who became king, and a king who became slave to his own extravagance. But it is also a spellbinding book about a star-studded era. The cast includes such greats as Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, RichardBurton, and Elizabeth Taylor. And then there are Yul's women: Virginia Gilmore, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, and JoanCrawford, among many others. Rock Brynner was the most attentive witness to Yul's astonishing life. In this deeply personal and loving memoir of a man who could be anything but loveable, Rock finally comes to terms with the tyrannical star, Rabelaisian womanizer, extravagant egoist, and self-inventor that was his father. A powerful and haunting book, Yul sets straight the record in Yul Brynner, and pays a tribute of truth to a magical actor, a difficult father, and an extraordinary man.

Yul: The Man Who Would Be King : A Memoir of Father and Son

Simon&Schuster

What if we learned that mass extinction caused by global warming is imminent and inescapable? What if we had no future. . . and we knew it? That's the premise of this provocative, highly topical thriller, an explosive mix of passion, murder, sex, science, and unremitting suspense.
It is 1998 -- or Doomsday minus forty years, according to renowned NASA scientist Dr. Roger Belacqua. When Terry Bancroft, a young assistant editor in New York City, comes across his mysterious, unsolicited manuscript, she realizes that its horrific conclusions must be made public. What she cannot imagine is the staggering impact of The Doomsday Report on her own life and the whole world: By the time it becomes a bestseller, it has sparked a global explosion of decadence, violence, and ruthless terrorism, with Terry Bancroft and those she loves at the very heart of the firestorm.
Part murder mystery, part love story, this novel is an all-too-plausible warning to our fragile, endangered planet.

The Doomsday Report

Literature & Fiction

United States

William Morrow & Co.

A remarkable medicine is now available that can successfully treat millions of people with multiple myeloma, brain tumors and other cancers, arthritis, lupus, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, leprosy, tuberculosis, and AIDS. It's thalidomide-a drug with a chilling history. In the 1950s, this "safe" sedative was all the rage in Europe. Then one baby was born without ears, another with stunted limbs, then another with no limbs at all. In all, ten thousand severely deformed babies were born before thalidomide was banned. But two years ago, this brutal toxin was approved by the FDA. How did the most infamous drug of all time become one of the major players in modern medicine?In this irresistible medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, a fascinating tale filled with villains and heroes, and bring us up to the present day, as scientists-Stephens among them-work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. The chronicle of a tragic chapter in the history of public health, Dark Remedy ends with great promise, as we put thalidomide to work for us, in the treatment of over a hundred diseases.

Dark Remedy: The Impact Of Thalidomide And Its Revival As A Vital Medicine

Stephens,Trent

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Basic Books

In this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. A parable about compassion-and the absence of it-Dark Remedy is a gripping account of thalidomide's extraordinary impact on the lives of individuals and nations over half a century.

Science & Math

Yul: The Man Who Would Be King : A Memoir of Father and Son (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series)

For millions of his fans, there is only one Yul Brynner, the most mysterious and exotic star in Hollywood history. But in fact four men were given that same name in successive generations, beginning with Yul’s Swiss-born grandfather, Jules, and ending with his son born in New York, Yul Jr., better known as author and historian Rock Brynner. Their lives compose a global odyssey that has come full circle in present-day Vladivostok in Far East Russia, the city built by Jules in the 1880s, where Yul and his father, Boris Julievitch, were born, and which Rock first visited on a lecture tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department. This is a vast family epic, teeming with exotic adventures, that begins aboard a pirate ship bound for Shanghai; like the fiction of Michener or Clavell, this true story is closely interwoven with history. Within twenty years of his arrival, Jules was the leading industrialist in the Far East, and the empire he created involved tiger hunters, Asian emperors, and most significantly, Tsar Nicholas II; it is revealed here exactly how their business association – and the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok – triggered the Russo—Japanese War that ended three centuries of Romanov autocracy. Under Lenin’s government, Boris was the only mine owner to regain control of his vast operation; but his personal dramas in China, Manchuria, and North Korea rivaled the ordeals of Dr. Zhivago. With the Russian diaspora, Yul’s childhood took him from Vladivostok to China and then to France, where, as a teenager, he performed in nightclubs with Russian Gypsies while becoming a trapeze acrobat in the circus. He moved to America before he spoke English and within five years was starring on Broadway; ten years later he received the Academy Award for The King and I. Yul’s only son, Rock, has been a European street clown and a Broadway star, road manager for The Band and bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, as well as a novelist and historian. His numerous visits to Vladivostok, along with his research, have earned him an enduring place in its social history.

Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond

Historical

Steerforth

Empire & Odysey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond

Steerforth Pr

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Yul: The Man Who Would Be King

Yul: The Man Who Would Be King

The ballad of habit and accident: A novel

Yul: The Man Who Would Be King : A Memoir of Father and Son

The Doomsday Report

Dark Remedy: The Impact Of Thalidomide And Its Revival As A Vital Medicine

Dark Remedy: The Impact Of Thalidomide And Its Revival As A Vital Medicine

Yul: The Man Who Would Be King : A Memoir of Father and Son (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series)

Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond

Empire & Odysey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond